FIFA 17 Winter Upgrades should launch in a matter of hours but in the meantime, players can get started on a new SBC (squad building challenge) to obtain the January POTM in-form card.

A string of fine performances has seen Spurs attacking midfielder Deli Alli picking up the award, and who can argue with the decision after five matches saw Alli stick the ball in the net five times.

The new in form card for Deli Alli is 85 rated and you've got 13 days to pick up the exclusive FUT card, that is once you've completed the four squad building challenges set out by EA Sports.

Take a look at our gallery below for four of the cheapest squads you can build to complete the challenges you face.

If you want more details on each of the Squad building challenges you face, take a look here: FIFA 17 January POTM

FIFA 17 - Deli Alli POTM (Player of the Month) SBC's solved!

Deli Alli is the Premier League Player of the Month for January. Here's how to solve his four Squad Building Challenges in FIFA 17 Ultimate Team.

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FIFA 17 Winter Upgrades are expected to release later today, with a huge stats boost for players across Europe, including the Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga, Seria A and more.

The Winter Upgrades are intended to upgrade certain players with boosted stats to reflect their consistently excellent real-world performances, similar to the weekly FIFA TOTW cards.

This should equally not be confused with the Winter upgrades for new FIFA 17 One to Watch players, which is completely separate.

EA Sports is yet to reveal the exact launch dates and times for the Winter Upgrades. In truth, they should have already arrived, which is why FIFA 17 experts over at Ultimate Team UK seem confident that the first batch is expected to land later today at 6pm UK time.

Further updates will follow and are predicted to arrive February 17, February 24 and March 3.

Supposedly a number of these stat boosts have already been leaked, and according to ultimateteam.co.uk this could include new player cards for the likes of Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez, Chelsea's Diego Costa and Liverpool's Philippe Coutinho.

FIFA 17 - Premier League Winter Upgrades

Here's a list of Premier League players who will be getting a winter upgrade with boosted stats in FIFA Ultimate Team.

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Alexis Sanchez - 88

So far a number of leaks have yielded a predicted set of Winter Upgrades for numerous Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1 players.

You can see the full list on ultimateteam.co.uk, but for now we're going to show you the list of players from the Premier League expected to receive Winter Upgrades, including their new stats:

EA's Peter Moore confirmed the news in an interview with Gamereactor UK and once again reiterated that the new FIFA release would be custom-built for Nintendo's console.

"Well, as we have said, we are custom-building a FIFA version for the Nintendo Switch," he revealed. "It will be FIFA 18, and it will obviously be later this year when FIFA 18 comes out."

Adding to the Moore also started "What you have will be a custom built version for the Nintendo Switch from the FIFA development team in Vancouver."

The Vancouver team have previously worked on a Wii U Edition of FIFA, but at this stage it's still unclear whether this latest iteration of the series will be based on a stripped back version of the game, as previously seen with modern releases on the PS3 or Xbox 360 versions.